Binding device.



F. C. HARRIMAN.

BlNDlNG DEVICE AFPUCATION FILED NOV. 19. 1915.

3.,Q13A79v Patented Jan. 23, 1917.

IN V EN TOR ATTORNEY jkaemiak UJ/Zzmizzm FREDERICK C. HARRIIJIAN, OF ABDSLEY-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK.

BINDING DEVICE.

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Application filed November 19, 1915.

To all whom it M ay concern Be it known that I, Finznnnicn C Hnniu- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ardsley-on-Hudson, in the county of lVcstchester and State of New York, have invented ne and useful Improvements in Binding Devices, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to binding devices, and its objects are firmly to secure together documents and other papers while affording opportunity for inspection of a portion of their contents, to hold the same normally in the position in which they were originally bound and to prevent distortion or disarrangement thereof, to afford a means for binding and unbinding with rapidity individual bundles of papers, to preserve and guard the articles bound from undue cramping of the binding, and in other ways to simplify and render more effective the operation of the several parts.

Attention is hereby directed to the ac companying drawings in which similar numerals of designation refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a bundle of paper documents showing my improved binder attached thereto; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of my improved binder ready for attachment.

In the drawing, the elongated strip a, composed of paper card-board, paper fiber, sheet metal or other suitable material is formed with a circular opening 5 near the top thereof, in order to provide a means for securing thereto one end of the tape 6. The said strip while of no great thickness is, nevertheless, preferably of sufficient rigidity so as normally to preserve its form without bending to any material extent. Near the bottom of the strip 4, I provide the same at about the center thereof with an opening 7, Which is formed with a space 8, communicating with a lobe 9, both of which being sufficiently wide to permit the tape 6 to move freely therethrough. Just below the lobe 9, and extending downwardly therefrom is the slit 10, which serves to bind and secure the free end of the tape 6 therein, the approach to said slit being of gradually decreasing dimensions. Located at a due distance below the said slit 10 and preferably at right angles thereto, is the Specification of Letters Patent.

iatenteddian. 753, 1917.

Serial No. 62,281.

slit 11, which is formed in one side of the strip 1? at the edge thereof, and serves further as a binding means to secure the free end of the tape 6. By having the said slits 10 and 11 at right angles, I am enabled thereby to produce a double binding arrangement for attaching the said tape, the said binders being mutually opposed and serving to safeguard the tape from being readily dislod ed. For the purpose of holding the free end of the tape in proper position for use, I further provide the strip at with the opening 12 and the curved indentation 13, for holding the tape 6 in operative position.

It will thus be observed that when the binder has been duly affixed to a bundle of documents, as shown in Fig. 1, the tape 6 extends from the top of the strip 4: where it is secured to the opening 5, thence back around the documents or papers 14, and, thereafter engaging with the indentation 13, passes down through the opening 12 and up through the opening 7, where it is drawntight and secured within a wedge-shaped slit 10, the free end of the tape (3 being then drawn downwardly through the slit 11, thence passing under the corner 15. If desired, a disk 16 may be attached to the end of the tape for convenience in handling.

Through the use of my improved binder I am able to overcome defects incident to the use of a cord, tape or rubber band or clips, pins and the like, all of which tend to injure the documents and papers to which they are applied. My device is so constructed that it can not catch or tear the papers to which it is secured, or any papers or documents adjacent thereto. It is attached and detached with the case and facility of a rubber band without marking or staining the papers or being subject to its other disadvantages, and will last as long as the papers to which it is applied. One particular advantage is, that being placed to cover a certain portion of one surface of the package along the longitudinal dimension thereof, the use of my device does not interfere with the counting or handling of the documents comprising such package, the binder being so placed as to permit the said documents to be held firmly together while at the same time permitting a limited inspection to be made at the edges thereof.

What I claim and desire to cover by Letters Patent is:

A binding device, consisting of an elongated fiat strip, a tape secured to one end 5 thereof, the other end of such strip being provided with a slot having a binding end extending at an angle to said slot, a lobe communicating with said binding end and also with an enlarged opening at the other 10 end of said slot, the "free end of said tape being freely movable in said slot at all portions thereof except said binding end, said strip being also provided with a slit in the edge thereof, adjacent to said slot, whereby the free end. of said tape may be temporarily 15 aflixed to the bottom of said strip.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of November, 1915.

FREDERICK G. HARRIMAN.

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